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  • Fixed Brownie Recipe

    I finally got around to fixing the Brownie Recipe I had posted a year or two ago. I kept meaning to do it and forgetting. But then my mom said that my sister had looked it up here and I suddenly paniced. Since if you followed the previous directions you’d have sugar and eggs left over, and I’m guessing that would taste pretty bad.

  • For My Wish List

    Okay, so I know there’s no chance of me actually getting this, but damn what a cool collection.

    Complete Criterion Collection gift set
    241 movies for $5,000, about $20 each   [via Waxy.org Links]

  • QOTD 11/21/2004

    Henrik Tikkanen
    “Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.” [via Quotes of the Day]

  • My Disaster Area


    This picture was taken in memory of the group Pretty_Mess over on LJ, since it doesn’t seem to get much traffic. The community was for “your photographs of messes you encounter in your day-to-day lives.” I posted it to Flickr with the tag “Pretty Mess“, so maybe we’ll get some other people contributing over there.


  • My Mom on Christmas

    While not watching TV tonight I was scanning in some pictures as a favor for my mom and came across a bunch of them from when she was growing up. Here’s one of a few from that bunch. This one is her at Christmas and is too cute.

  • What I Hate About This Time Of Year

    One thing I’ve been finding lately is that I just don’t watch quite as much TV. I blame it partly on the TiVo. I like being able to record something and watch it at a later time. The thing is, this is college basketball season. And since my parents, dad especially, is a UConn Women’s Basketball fanatic that takes priority over anything else on TV. Including the one hour of prime time TV that I watch (Joan of Arcadia). I think what is most annoying is that I end up having to watch it in real time, suddenly having to run (er well, my version of run) to the third floor at the last minute. Oh well, at least whining always makes it not seem so bad.

    And Joan was good this week. I hadn’t gotten to watch last week’s until this afternoon and it was a bit harsh to say the least. The show needed and episode that ended up an up note like this. This season has just had quite the dark cloud over it.

  • Not Getting It

    Roger Catlin of the Hartford Courant writes in today’s Eye on TV section:

    Japanimation Cute, But Strange; UConn Women Open Season

    The super cutesy side of Japanese animation, already adapted in cartoons like “Hamtaro” and “Powerpuff Girls” (Cartoon Network, 8:30 and 11 p.m.) gets even closer to the source on the new “Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi” (Cartoon Network, 7:30 and 9 p.m.), with its rendering of a popular pop duo as a pair of adorable squibs.

    Like a lot of Japanimation, there are some traits that are still tough to figure – chiefly how the mouths inexplicably become two dimensional slabs of baloney when open; and when open very large, routinely exceed the boundaries of the face. [CTnow.com (registration required)]

    Um, just because the show is based on people from Japan does not make it Japanese Animation. Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi is a Cartoon Network original series. As is the Powerpuff Girls. They may be anime influenced, but that’s it. Hamtaro is anime, but I still think Hamtaro should end up in a wood chipper one of these days.

    Oh, and nobody uses the term ‘Japanimation’ anymore, that’s so 80s.

  • Project D.U.

    Seen via Compendium, SBC’s new RSS reader: Project D.U.. I guess D.U. stands for Digital Universe.

    proj·ect · d. u.
    (noun) 1. a reader populated with headlines pulled from across the web.
    2. relater of news and rumors
    3. hiding place for next month’s topic of conversation.
    4. the center of your Digital Universe. Synonyms: middleman, informant, eavesdropper.

    First off, the site. It feels like it is trying way too hard to be ‘Hip’. Almost all the buttons you can click are animated in some way. Luckily none of them burst into flames. Next, the Project D.U. Reader. I personally found it to be pretty lame in a bunch of ways.

    • The interface leaves much to be desired. It just feels clunky.
    • When you look at the lists of posts for a blog it only shows you excerpts, even if the blog provides full posts. Clicking on their ‘read more’ link opens up the actual post .

    • No way to export your subscriptions.
    • No support for enclosures.
    • Kinda slow and clunky.
    • When it couldn’t resolve a hostname right away it told me that the feed was bad.

    • Project D.U. is a stupid name.

    And as I was about to close my browser window on the site, I noticed this on their about page:

    One of the best features of this site, not unlike the advent of color television, is the Project D.U. Reader. It’s filled with headlines from some of the best blogs you’ve never heard of. In fact, we’ve spent hundreds, maybe thousands of hours scouring the web, trying to find the most intriguing sites the world has to offer. To be fair, we pay the favored blogs a bit each month for the right to use their stuff. But we don’t edit what they say, that would be a very un-fun read.

    Wait, they are paying the blogs they list money?? How can I get in on that racket.

  • A Kick

    I was whining this morning over on #joiito about being in a bit of a slump as far as blogging goes and Joi gave me a kick to get me back into gear, so here come a few posts.

  • QOTD 11/18/2004

    Voltaire
    “Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” [via Quotes of the Day]